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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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dy, wave-washed bed.Where the mosses creep oer fallen trees, As softly asleep they lie.Lulled by the drowsy hum of bees— No one but Cherry and I. No one knows how the cardinal flower, Velvety, gorgeous and tall,Was prisoned fast in a virgin bower Of golden thread for a thrall,That the dodder spun one summer day. When only we two were nigh;No one else saw—so no one can say— No one but Cherry and I. No one knows where the blue-berries hide, In the fern beds, thick and green,Where the mossy floor is soft and wide. And the sunlight sifts betweenLayers of leaves, in the roof oerhead, With never a glimpse of sky;Where the trilliums cup is the wild bees bed— No one but Cherry and I. No one knows where the orioles nest Swings by a silvery thread,Backward and forth by the wild grape pressed, That drops from the boughs oerhead.Where we find the first wild strawberry, No one could tell, should they try:For a chestnut heifer is Cherry, And a country milkmaid, I. —Elizabeth Walling. 32 k
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rnoM COL. CHI. *cao sci«nc€s STARFISHES. COrYRlSHT 190), BY AHti-riiiH (Khriicpii ((^iilifDrniii.A.sUirias foHieHll (Ithoilc IhIjiikI.) Nillorcllii iiriMiita (Iaiiiiiiiii Astprisv) vulgaris (Massachusetts.)Asteiiaa forbosii iMassiicliusetta.> Astorina iniriiata (California.) noi STARFISHES. One of the most unique and interest-ing branches of the animal kingdom isthat division called by scientists Echino-dermata, comprising animals familiarlyknown as starfishes, sea urchins, sanddollars and sea cucumbers. So far asis known no member of this group ofanimals has ever ventured on land orinto fresh water. All are inhabitants ofthe ocean and are found from the tide-washed shore to the abysses of the sea. The present article deals with thetrue starfishes (Asteroidea) and a goodidea of the general structure may begained by a careful examination of aspecimen of the common five-finger (As-terias vulgaris) so common on the NewEngland coast. It is made up of a cen-tral disk or body, from wh

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